finneh
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This is the biggest summer window we have had in decades. I honestly believe that. The board need to heavily back him with serious cash.
I'm not sure that's a realistic expectation in truth unless a key player is sold. If someone came in for Alli with a bid of say £100m do you think Spurs fans would consider this if 100% of the proceeds could be given to Pochettino reinvested?
The reason I ask is that historically Spurs have had saleable assets that have allowed them to invest. Since Bale left you've sold over £200m of players that haven't been at all vital to the team, spending around the same amount on less quantity and more quality (getting great fee's for the likes of Mason, Caulker, Livermore, Townsend, Capoue, Paulinho, Wimmer, Bentaleb and of course Walker). However this ability to sell 5-6 players for £5m - 20m every season seems to me to be drying up due to an ever decreasing squad size (inc loanee's) meaning that for every player that departs, another probably more costly one would have to arrive for you to progress.
Looking at your squad the obvious candidates to leave are Rose, Sissoko, Llorente, Janssen and N'koudou; but they would need replacing by at least 4 proven players (central midfielder, centre forward and probably two full backs). I'm struggling to see more than maybe £60m of sales and I'd imagine replacements would cost 2-3x that and given that Spurs won't have £100m lying around ready to invest in the squad I'm curious as to how they will approach the Summer.
Even if a player like Alderweireld is sold for say £45m he'll again need replacing for a comparable cost, unless you look to someone like Evans (£3m clause) to replace him. Again though this would be counterproductive and would represent a huge drop in quality.
It'll certainly be an interesting window that's for sure, not least because I think several big name teams will be in the market for a central midfielder.